Sandra Edge

{{short description|New Zealand netball player}}

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|birth_place = Te Puia Springs, New Zealand

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|nationalyears1 = 1985–94

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{{MedalGold|1987 Glasgow|Netball}}

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Sandra Helen Edge {{post-nominals|country=NZL|MBE|size=85%}} (born 26 August 1962 in Te Puia Springs)[https://www.silverferns.co.nz/silver-ferns/history/players/sandra-edge.html Silver Ferns profile: Sandra Edge]. Retrieved 25 May 2018.[https://www.sportgisborne.org.nz/legend-of-sport/sandra-edge/ Sport Gisborne profile: Sandra Edge]. Retrieved 25 May 2018. is a New Zealand netball coach and former international netball player.

She captained the New Zealand under 21 team in 1982, aged 17. She debuted in the Silver Ferns in Melbourne in 1985, against Australia. For the next ten years she played in a record 94 internationals and three world championships; the team won the world title in 1987. She became New Zealand team captain in 1994, and retired in 1995. The team defeated England and South Africa, and came third in the 1995 world championship. As a player she was noted as the best centre in the world.[http://www.nzhalloffame.co.nz/Inductees/E/Sandra-Edge.aspx Sandra Edge at The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame website].

In 1990, Edge was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.{{cite book |last1=Taylor |first1=Alister |last2=Coddington |first2=Deborah |authorlink1=Alister Taylor |authorlink2=Deborah Coddington |title=Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand |year=1994 |publisher=New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa |location=Auckland |isbn=0-908578-34-2 |page=131}} In the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to netball.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-1995 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 1995 |date=17 June 1995 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=9 November 2019}} She was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.{{cite news|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=1090240 |title=Halberg awards: Rowing twins share triumph |date=1 Mar 2002 |work=The New Zealand Herald |accessdate=11 January 2013}}

Edge later became a netball coach, and in 2016 was appointed assistant coach for the Central Pulse in the new ANZ Premiership competition.{{cite news |title=Silver Ferns great Sandra Edge named Pulse assistant coach |date=18 October 2016 |publisher=Newshub.co.nz |url=http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2016/10/silver-ferns-great-sandra-edge-named-pulse-assistant-coach.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180524222218/http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2016/10/silver-ferns-great-sandra-edge-named-pulse-assistant-coach.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 May 2018 |accessdate=24 May 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.pulse.org.nz/team/?tx_hurricanes_showcurrentsquad%5Bplayer%5D=14&tx_hurricanes_showcurrentsquad%5Baction%5D=show&tx_hurricanes_showcurrentsquad%5Bcontroller%5D=Player&cHash=274a0cbe14ae95205e9c1f8cc9bbb252|title=Sandra Edge – Assistant Coach – Biography|publisher=www.pulse.org.nz|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180525062326/https://www.pulse.org.nz/team/?tx_hurricanes_showcurrentsquad%5Bplayer%5D=14&tx_hurricanes_showcurrentsquad%5Baction%5D=show&tx_hurricanes_showcurrentsquad%5Bcontroller%5D=Player&cHash=274a0cbe14ae95205e9c1f8cc9bbb252|archive-date=25 May 2018|access-date=27 May 2022}}

In 2024, Edge was an inaugural inductee to the Netball New Zealand Hall of Fame.{{cite news |url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/510089/netball-new-zealand-start-hall-of-fame |title=Netball New Zealand start Hall of Fame |date=24 February 2025 |work=RNZ News |access-date=30 March 2025}}